. Marinate the meat in curd taken in a bowl.
. Roast cardamom, cinnamon, peppercorns cloves. Make a fine powder.
. Grind ginger, red chillies, green chillies, half the onions, garlic and dried kernel of the coconut.
. Now heat fat in a pan. Add chopped onions and ground spices.
. Fry until onions turn golden brown.
. Now add meat and fry well. Add poppy seed powder.
. Add salt and remaining curd. Cook till meat becomes tender
. Add powdered spices to it and remove from the flame.
. Fry remaining onions in fat in a separate pan.
. Add cloves and bay leaf.
. Fry for few minutes and add rice.
. Fry for another few minutes.
. Put salt to taste and make the quantity of water double.
. Remove from the flame when rice gets cooked and no moisture is left.
. Arrange a part of cooked rice in a pan and sprinkle saffron water over it.
. Place the meat over it and cover with rice layer once again.
. Garnish with fried onions and nuts.
. Mutton Biryani is ready.